Resistance is Fertile!

50 Years Is Enough, set up in 1993, is a coalition of over 200 organizations committed to the fundamental transformation of the IMF and World Bank. These are its platform demands: • Open all World Bank and IMF meetings to the media and the public. Cancel all impoverished country debt to the World Bank and IMF, using the institutions’ own resources.

• End all World Bank and IMF policies that hinder people’s access to food, clean water, shelter, healthcare, education and the right to organize. (Such ‘structural adjustment’ policies include user fees, privatization and economic austerity programmes.)

• Stop all World Bank support for socially and environmentally destructive projects such as oil, gas and mining activities, and all support for projects such as dams that include forced relocation of people.

• Full funding for the Global Fund to Fight aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria; and an end to support for trade initiatives that undermine access to affordable and generic lifesaving medications for hiv/aids and other diseases.

There will be a mass mobilization in Washington DC during the IMF/World Bank meeting from 22 to 26 April 2004.

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Focus on the Global South c/o CUSRI, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand tel: +66 2218 7363 65 email: [email protected] web: http://www.focusweb.org An information base for the global justice movement, aiming to link development at the grassroots and the macro levels.

Friends of the Earth International PO Box 19199, 1000 GD Amsterdam, Netherlands tel: 31 20 622 1369 web: http://www.foei.org International home of the environmental campaign, with national groups in all NI reader countries.

IFI WatchNet http://www.ifiwatchnet.org Connects organizations worldwide which are monitoring international financial institutions (IFIs) such as the World Bank, the IMF, and regional development banks.

Organize your own ‘Global Justice Film Festival’ by sending for the Global Justice Film Project Organizing Kit. Cost: $15 in the US, with international orders subject to additional charges due to shipping costs. Contact [email protected] tel: +1 202 463 2265, or order by mail from 50 Years Is Enough (see above).

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